Mapping Chengde : the Qing landscape enterprise / Philippe Foret.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forêt, Philippe, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chengde (China)--Civilization.

Chengde (China).

Chengde (China)--History.

China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. This volume, the first scholarly publication in English on the Manchu summer capital, reveals how this unlikely architectural and landscape enterprise came to help forge a dynasty's multicultural identity and concretize its claims of political legitimacy. Using both visual and textual materials, the author explores the hidden dimensions of landscape, showing how geographical imagination shaped the aesthetics of Qing court culture while proposing a new interpretation of the mental universe that conceived one of the world's most remarkable examples of imperial architecture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Author's Notes

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The Great Qing at Home

Chapter 3. Hamlet and Imperial Residence

Chapter 4. Garden and Mountain Rhetoric

Chapter 5. The Jehol Frontier

Chapter 6. Capitals and Models

Chapter 7. Representations of Chengde

Chapter 8. Chengde Studies

Appendix 1. Place Name Concordance

Appendix 2. Qing Dynasty Emperors

Appendix 3. Waiba Miao Temples

Appendix 4. The Kangxi Emperor'S Vistas

Appendix 5. Chronology of Chengde

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-202) and index.

ISBN:

9780824863517

0824863518

9780585481920

058548192X

OCLC:

53897371